Magazines and newspapers are the source of my recent drawings.I transfer the images of figures, tracing them by hand, one by one, and layering them on paper.The figures lose their individual characteristics and become part of a mass, a zigzagging chaos of lines.

I am interested in the tension between the highly representational and readable starting point - often advertisements, which have to get a message across as clearly as possible - and the abstracted, illegible result of the layering process.The final drawing is a sort of compact image of the whole magazine: All the information is in there, but condensed and illegible.The media defines our experience of the world and reality extensively, maybe more than our direct experiences do.

The images I use, many from fashion magazines, have extremely high production value, arriving as a pristine, glowing object in the mail or on the news stand, yet meant to disappear in a month or two, to become trash and disappear from consciousness. My work refers to the culture that produced them, but totally transforms the original narrative.It asks viewers to reread their narrow, commercial script.